Foreign ports, intriguing strangers, a sense of possibility. If travel is a passport to romance, the new book “Travelers’ Tales Love & Romance” (Travelers’ Tales, $17.95) is certain to take you to new destinations.
From tropical trysts to amorous adventures in the Arctic, these tales survey the world of love on the road in 39 true stories.
Affairs of every kind — sweet, sexy, adventurous, sad, funny, young, old, married, single, gay, straight — are recounted in stories that tell of searching for the word “condom” in India, receiving a bull’s ear as a token of affection in Spain and restoring a marriage in Bosnia.
The book is “not just about people falling in bed with each other. It’s about emotion and connection and renewal and epiphany and passion,” said Judith Babcock Wylie, who edited the book.
In “The Working Class,” the author is wooed by a charming quartet of workmen she sees daily outside her hotel window in Paris. In “Equal Pressure” a couple learn a partnering tip from a Mayan dance that restores their marriage.
The latter, written by former NFL football player Frank Case, was the winner of a contest calling for essays on “your most romantic travel experience.”
In “Remember Africa?” a wife visits her Alzheimer’s stricken husband daily although he can no longer recognize her. When she finally asks him about their travels, his world opens up. Not only can he remember the Serengeti, for a time, he remembers her face.
